Open Source Tools for Software Development Videos and Tutorials
This tutorial demonstrates how to configure your Windows XP environment in order to do some JSF development. The idea is that first you need to install the JDK, configure the JAVA_HOME environment variable, and then install the Tomcat Servlet & JSP engine. With the JAVA_HOME set, and the bin directory …
This video shows a quick example of creating a working CRUD application on top of PostgreSQL using JBoss SEAM (Java Server Faces, EJBs, and Hibernate). In 5 minutes, you use the SEAM framework to build a basic application including reverse engineering the database schema to create boiler plate code for …
SproutCore is an open-source platform for building fast rich cloud applications on the web. Specifically, the tools we develop are suitable for building large-scale applications that scale to many millions of users across many different devices. Episode 1 of Sproutcasts, covers the basic layout of a new SproutCore application, what …
This gem provides a Random singleton class with a series of methods for generating random test data including names, mailing addresses, dates, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and text. http://www.rubypulse.com/episode-0.7-random_data.html random_data on RubyForge
This screencast covers Gaelyk, Groovy, and Google App Engine development. Gaelyk is a lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine Java. This tutorial starts a new Gaelyk project from scratch and creates a basic CRUD application. This was recorded during the Atlanta Groovy and Grails User Group meeting (ATL2G) by …
JSON is a simple data interchange format. It is rare among standards in that minimalism was one of the principle goals of its design. Radical minimalism made it possible for JSON to compete successfully against entrenched, maximal standards. This is the true story of the origins of JSON, and how …